As a diverse fellowship, our foremost activity is to glorify God and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him in worship. All maturity and fruitful ministry flows from this foundational relationship with God in both private and corporate worship. This relationship with God grows only as believers give primacy to the Word of God and prayer in their daily lives.

1. Rejoicing
Praise and worship of God as individuals, families, small groups and as a congregation. Ephesians 1:3-8, Ephesians 5:18-33.

We resolve to be a church where every believer grows deeper in love, enjoyment and intimacy with God through personal and corporate worship. Our relationship with God is established and grows solely by the grace of Jesus Christ. We celebrate God's grace corporately by making worship the high point of our week in order to enjoy God and give Him the glory He is due.

2. Reconciling
Love for God is revealed in our love for one another across the divides of class, culture and race through biblical fellowship, repentance and a commitment to unity. Ephesians 2:8-9, Ephesians 4:3-4.

We resolve to be a church where every believer grows in loving others (Luke 10:27). Each member relies on God's strength to demonstrate His love to others through encouragement, prayer support and the diligent pursuit of reconciliation. This ministry of reconciliation demands cultural sensitivity beyond our own cultures and serious effort to preserve the unity of the Body that Christ died for.

3. Reaching
Local and global outreach to Pen Lucy, Baltimore and the world through personal and corporate witness, church planting and world missions. Ephesians 3:8-10, Ephesians 6:19-20.

We resolve to be a church where every person within our sphere of influence is presented to the person of Jesus Christ (Matthew 18:12). Each member seeks equipping in disciple-making to bring the presence and grace of Jesus to his/her relational networks, Pen Lucy and Baltimore. We aim to create clear and personally guided pathways for orienting and incorporating seekers into the life, fellowship and ministries of the church. At the same time we seek global faithfulness and work to extend God's kingdom beyond our region of Baltimore to the world.

4. Righting
Doing justice and loving mercy through crisis relief, Christian community development and reform. Ephesians 1:18-23, Ephesians 5:13-17, Ephesians 6:5-9 and Micah 6:8.

We resolve to be a church where doing justice and loving mercy are norm. The focus of our pursuit of justice and seeking the peace of Baltimore is on the Pen Lucy community through personal relationship building and Christian community development works. Christian community development is the Church being the redemptive presence of Christ to those in need through concrete deeds of mercy and justice that affirm people's dignity, cultivates and environment of hope restores people to productive service in God's Kingdom.

5. Renewing
Christian growth in grace and discipleship towards maturity through personal and corporate Bible to life study, spiritual gift awareness, strategic service and small group fellowship. Ephesians 4:11-23, Ephesians 2:10.

We resolve to be a church where every believer is discipled to spiritual maturity. This maturity is dependant on the believer's commitment to the Word of God, fellowship and prayer. Believers grow in grace by learning to deal with God' directly for strength, wisdom and comfort as their first and primary source, realizing that no other person is capable of being God's substitute. At the same time our spiritual maturity is impossible without the vital relationships in Christ's Body. (Ephesians 4:11, Colossians 1:28, 29). We value church membership because it expresses the covenant relationship Christ calls us to (Acts 2:41, 1 Corinthians 12:12,13). Each member pursues spiritual equipping and encouragement relationships for spiritual equipping and encouragement relationships for spiritual transformation and service. In this all members view themselves as ministers in the church and owns Christ's commission to "make disciples".

6. Praying
Dependence upon God through prayer. Ephesians 3:14-21, Ephesians 6:10-18.

We resolve to be a church where every believer grows in prayer. We acknowledge that God has chosen prayer to be our first and essential ministry for participating in the expansion of His Kingdom. We seek persistent, dependent, bold, intimate, repentant and biblically grounded praying throughout the Body in our personal relationship with God, as couples, families, small groups and various prayer ministries that God would work among us for His glory.

Note: These values require a commitment from each member to remove obstacles that impede the free extension of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the making of disciples. It also means that each member follows God's ordained leadership with an attitude of responsible trust and welcomes shepherding care and spiritual guidance. Members are encouraged to approach the leadership when they have concerns or questions related to the ministry of the Church. Each of us must refuse to allow unresolved concerns or conflicts to break fellowship or trust with one another. At the same time, we will not promote unity at the expense of truth.

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